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Originally Posted by Simply Red
That's cool - honestly I feel totally lost as to how many calories to intake, daily.
I know we've been down this road in the older thread - I simply have forgotten the formula. Not sure it matters - but I'm 6' 1" -- 183 LBS - would like to add some additional muscle - but not interested in getting ginormous, or very big - Just want to add some more meat - and rip. I'm already on my way - but truthfully I'm not sure if I've been ingesting 2k cals. or 2,500 cals. - per day - but in the areana.
How can I find the right approach - and maybe, what should that approach be?
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First, figure out how much you eat every day, macros and all.
Then, evaluate your goals. Are you losing fat? Are your lifts improving? If you aren't losing fat, and that's your goal, decrease calories. If you are more concerned about your lifts going up without adding a lot of fat, then increase calories by 500 per day for two weeks and see what happens. If your lifts go up but you put on too much fat, decrease the calories a little bit and track again for two weeks. It's really just a matter of dialing it in.